Abstract
Escherichia albertii is an emerging human enteropathogen. We report the draft genome sequence of E. albertii strain Mex-12/320a, isolated from an infant with diarrhea. The presence of the pathogenic island O122/IE6 and the nleA gene, previously found in diarrheagenic enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains, suggests that E. albertii may cause acute diarrhea.
Highlights
Escherichia albertii is an emerging human enteropathogen
The genome sequence confirmed the presence of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) genes and nleA and cdt-II virulence genes previously found in other E. albertii strains [13, 14]
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the presence of the complete pathogenicity island (PAI) O122/IE6 in an E. albertii strain
Summary
Escherichia albertii is an emerging human enteropathogen. We report the draft genome sequence of E. albertii strain Mex-12/320a, isolated from an infant with diarrhea. One colony from MacConkey agar was selected and incubated in LB broth for 18 h at 37°C without agitation. Genomic DNA was extracted using a phenol-chloroform protocol, prepared as Illumina sequencing libraries using the Nextera XT kit, and sequenced by the GAIIx system (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA), generating 3,148,027 reads.
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